Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Publishers Lunch

Brooks
Shermanwill
join Janklow & Nesbit as a literary agent on May 23, continuing to represent
fiction for young adult and middle-grade readers, picture books, select
literary and commercial adult fiction, and nonfiction in the areas of humor,
pop culture, and narrative nonfiction. Most recently he was an agent at The
Bent Agency.

Nicola
Barr
is leaving Greene & Heaton and joining The Bent Agency with her existing
list of clients, helping to expand the agency's UK business.

Liz Tzetzo has joined Macmillan as vice
president of client publisher services. Previously, she was vice president of
marketing and sales director for Basic Books.

Publishing four to six titles in its
first year, the line's mission is inclusivity: "to source, nurture and
publish writing talent – and reach audiences – from areas currently
under-represented or not covered by the mainstream publishing industry,
including people from BAME backgrounds, the LGBTQI+ community and those with
disabilities."